Who, when, what, why -- Acts of transfer -- Scenarios of discovery : reflections on performance and ethnography -- Cultural memory and identity : mestizaje, hybridity, transculturation -- La raza cosmética : Walter Mercado performs Latino psychic space -- False identifications : minority populations mourn Diana -- "You are here" : hijos and the DNA of performance -- Staging traumatic memory : Yuyachkani -- Denise Stoklos : the politics of decipherability -- Lost in the field of vision : witnessing 9/11 -- Hemispheric performances
Summary
An interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics
Notes
"A John Hope Franklin Center book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index
